Last Updated: 15/05/2013
DVLA Preston local office
Fulwood Park
Caxton Road
Preston
PR2 9NZ
For enquiries about vehicles: 0300 790 6802 (Textphone minicom users 0300 123 1279).
For enquiries about driving licences: 0300 790 6801 (Textphone minicom users 0300 123 1278).
Please note, all calls are handled initially by our call centre based in Swansea.
Open: Monday to Friday 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. On the second Wednesday of each month the office will be open from 9.30 am to 5.00 pm.
Closed for essential staff training
Please be advised that the office will be closed for essential staff training on the following dates:
- Friday 27th September until 1.30pm
- Tuesday 22nd October until 1.30pm
- Tuesday 12th November until 1.30pm
Customers are reminded that they can access DVLA services online at: www.gov.uk/browse/driving
We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
Please be advised that the local offices in England, Scotland and Wales will be closed on the following : Public Holidays 2012 - 2013
Facilities
25 spaces at the office. Customers parking outside these spaces may be clamped.
Supermarket, Pittman Way (400 metres).
Ramp access from parking bays to pavement.
Hearing loop on counter position eight.
Cash machine at supermarket on Pittman Way (400 metres).
External mail box to the left of the main entrance.
Supermarket, Pittman Way (400 metres).
No smoking building; no alternative facilities.
One interview room, contact staff for use.
If you have specific access requirements, please use our call ahead service 0300 790 6818
Directions
By Car
From South or East:
- leave M6 at Junction 31A. Go through two roundabouts and at the third, turn right into Eastway. Follow Eastway to next roundabout and turn right (as if going into supermarket).
- take the first left into Caxton Road and then 2nd left again into site
- NB junction 31A does not allow traffic to leave the M6 Southbound and join Northbound
From North or West:
- leave M6 at Junction 32 or M55 at Junction 1 and follow signs for Preston (A6)
- after leaving the motorway roundabout stay in the left hand lane and take the first left
- go down the hill to another roundabout and turn right onto Eastway outside public house
- follow Eastway through two roundabouts (after the second roundabout you will pass the LEP building on your left) and at the next roundabout turn left
- take the first left into Caxton Road and then 2nd left again into the site
From Preston Town Centre:
- from Ringway turn into Ribbleton Lane outside the Prison
- bear left at the next set of traffic lights onto Deepdale road
- follow Deepdale road through three sets of traffic lights and at the fourth set turn right into Watling Street Road (the set after the supermarket)
- follow Watling Street Road to the next set of lights and filter left on to Eastway
- go through the first roundabout and turn right at the next one (as if going into supermarket)
- take first left into Caxton Road and then 2nd left into the site
By Bus
- number 23 bus from City Centre Bus Station (4 miles)
By Train
- Preston City approx (5 miles)
